Mehmet Akyuz

I am a pragmatic and a fast learning professional software engineer with extensive experience
in travel industry centered in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
I work at the smartest travel company in Amsterdam, in my free time I travel,
take pictures, read about and enjoy different cultures.

Currently

Senior Software Engineer
TravelBird. 2013 jan - Present

Developed a dynamic packaging system

Developed a travel dynamic packaging system that in realtime finds the optimal solutions to packaging multiple travel components, such as hotels, flights, activities and carrentals. Applied a heuristic algorithm against typical combinatorial optimization problems

Developed a rule-based accommodation allotment & pricing system

Designed and developed a product pricing & availability platform in order to automate integration of accommodations, activities and transportation data of third parties into a unified system.

Developed a markup system

Developed a hierarchical markup system to support fine-grained pricing configuration for automated revenue management.

Developed a booking engine API

Developed a search & booking API using GraphQL to support realtime dynamic packaging of travel products based on a progressively refined customer search query. (achieving a +8% CR combined with an adapted UX)

Tech Stack

IT Manager
Dutch Travel International B.V. 2006 jan - 2013 dec

Lead development of a B2B booking platform

Implemented and maintained a web based B2B booking engine between Touroperators and Online travel-agencies (OTA's), used by 1800 travel agencies in the Netherlands for live hotel & flight availability, price searches, reservations and e-ticketing.

Automated internal processes and managed the connectivity of live availability and booking systems with ~1800 travel agents and various online travel agents in the Netherlands.

Web Developer
German Sky Airlines GmbH. 2010 feb - 2013 dec

Maintained the main website of the German Sky Airline fleet

Extended the search engine to support multi-day/leg/airport search capability

Education

Amsterdam University
2009-2013

Computer Science
Software Engineering

Skills

Software Engineering

9+ year experience in OOP, functional programming and MVC-oriented web development. Have professional experience with Python, Javascript, Flask, Django, RabbitMQ, Celery, mySQL, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, React, Redux, Apollo and JSX. And hobbyist experience with Java, Golang, Rust and Haskell. Have a particular interest in graph theory and its applications, and a strong grasp of programming paradigms in order to quickly adapt to new frameworks and languages.

Devops

Experience provisioning and maintaining both Linux and Windows servers, bare-metal and on the AWS platform. Including setting up and configuration of WSGI webapplications, RabbitMQ, Varnish, Memcache, and configuration of Ansible for provisioning and deployment.

Travel Technology Guru

12 years experience in the travel industry with know-how of the underlying technology of the Dutch and European tourism landscape with experience rapidly developing, automating and optimising touroperator (TO) and travel agency (OTA) systems, data modelling, developing product, pricing, availability and packaging systems, designing architecture and integrating travel web services.